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cabbitzillaA couple of tidbits to pass on:
Study: Sexual identity hard-wired by genetics
The medical community might just have to reexamine their 'superior male' mindset...
And Yahoo is again trying to quietly track everyone on the net:
Web Beacons
About halfway down the page is an 'Opt Out' button... it tracks via web browser rather than user, so -every- browser on -every- machine you use needs to go through the 'Opt Out' procedure if you want what's left of your privacy back.
Thus far, my luck with getting extraneous hardware to work with the G3 is abyssmal; with the sole exception of boosting the memory to 640megs of RAM, nothing else wants to cooperate. I -am- quite pleased with how well it runs with the boosted memory, though; my collection of anime music videos play quite nicely, and Mac OS X 10.2 seems to be a fairly durable and stable OS. On the whole, I'm quite happy with it.
Erk. Mistress? When you sent that DVD ROM drive to me? It had your Spy Game DVD in it. :p
Still no luck finding the scratch to put tire(s) on the car. Ideally, the solution would be to put -new- tires, two of them, on the wheel that's got the flat on it and on the spare wheel sitting in a box in my living room. Put the two new ones on the front, the best pair of the old three on the back, and the odd remainder in the trunk as a full-sized spare. Unfortunately, that's gonna cost around $150, and I just don't have it. *soft sigh* I hate the little 3/4 size 'emergency' spares... makes me feel like I've got an old skateboard stuck under one wheel...
Anyway, that's the nuts and bolts. My mental/emotional state is cloudy and dark, and I really don't have the strength to go into it. There're too many things that need doing, that need -money- for doing, and too damned little money...
Study: Sexual identity hard-wired by genetics
The medical community might just have to reexamine their 'superior male' mindset...
And Yahoo is again trying to quietly track everyone on the net:
Web Beacons
About halfway down the page is an 'Opt Out' button... it tracks via web browser rather than user, so -every- browser on -every- machine you use needs to go through the 'Opt Out' procedure if you want what's left of your privacy back.
Thus far, my luck with getting extraneous hardware to work with the G3 is abyssmal; with the sole exception of boosting the memory to 640megs of RAM, nothing else wants to cooperate. I -am- quite pleased with how well it runs with the boosted memory, though; my collection of anime music videos play quite nicely, and Mac OS X 10.2 seems to be a fairly durable and stable OS. On the whole, I'm quite happy with it.
Erk. Mistress? When you sent that DVD ROM drive to me? It had your Spy Game DVD in it. :p
Still no luck finding the scratch to put tire(s) on the car. Ideally, the solution would be to put -new- tires, two of them, on the wheel that's got the flat on it and on the spare wheel sitting in a box in my living room. Put the two new ones on the front, the best pair of the old three on the back, and the odd remainder in the trunk as a full-sized spare. Unfortunately, that's gonna cost around $150, and I just don't have it. *soft sigh* I hate the little 3/4 size 'emergency' spares... makes me feel like I've got an old skateboard stuck under one wheel...
Anyway, that's the nuts and bolts. My mental/emotional state is cloudy and dark, and I really don't have the strength to go into it. There're too many things that need doing, that need -money- for doing, and too damned little money...
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Date: 2003-10-21 06:00 pm (UTC)Brain Study Focuses on Gender Identity
Findings challenge the theory that hormones alone define male and female brain differences.
By Rosie Mestel, Times Staff Writer
UCLA scientists have uncovered genetic differences in developing male and female mouse brains that may contribute to the subtle and not so subtle differences between adults of the two genders.
The study, to be published today in the journal Molecular Brain Research, is likely to also apply to humans, its authors said. It might one day provide doctors with a diagnostic test for assigning a gender to children born with ambiguous genitalia.
^^^^^^^ This is the part I'm worried about, of course. Do you think it's a good sign, or a bad one?
Neuroscientists know that male and female brains, although far more alike than different, have certain distinctions.
For instance, in human beings a structure called the corpus callosum, which carries communications between the two brain hemispheres, is generally larger in women's brains. Female brains also tend to be more symmetrical. The significance of these and other differences is unclear, but researchers often invoke them to explain men's generally superior performance at spatial reasoning and women's often superior verbal skills.
Men and women, on average, also possess documented differences in certain thinking tasks and in behaviors such as aggression that are thought by many to be biologically rooted.
Scientists have long assumed that these differences arise because the male brain is subject to the influences of testosterone and other male hormones after the formation of the testes.
In the study, a team led by Dr. Eric Vilain, professor of human genetics, pediatrics and urology, extracted genetic material from the brains of 10-day-old mouse embryos. Analysis revealed that more than 50 of the mouse's many thousands of genes had different levels of activity in male and female brains. Some genes were active — switched on — in female embryos but were less strongly active or inactive in male embryos. Others were switched on more strongly in the male embryos.
Vilain said the function of many of these genes was unclear, but he said it was quite likely they caused some nerves in the brain to develop along gender lines. His group is beginning to study the genes individually to understand what influence they may have on brain structures.
The study is significant because it is one of several recent studies challenging the theory that hormones are the be-all and end-all in male-female brain differences, said Charles Roselli, a neuroscientist at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland. Hormones couldn't be behind the observed gene differences because they occurred well before the embryo started producing sex hormones.
"It's a very interesting study and I think important conceptually," Roselli said.
About Yahoo...
Date: 2003-10-21 10:32 pm (UTC)Laters,
Devon
Re: About Yahoo...
Date: 2003-10-22 01:58 am (UTC)We're talking about an image, here. You don't need to download software to have someone track your movements online, all you need to do is have a web browser that supports images and cookies. The only way to stop it is to opt-out, or disable images and/or cookies.
People are willing to trade security/privacy for convenience...
Hmm...
It wasn't anything we don't already know, but it was nice to see it confirmed by science. :~)
Love,
~~Kt3, Gay By Birth~~